Antisocial and Prosocial Relations

Question 1

What are antisocial relations and what are the 2 types that were discussed?

Answer 1

thoughts and behaviors that are aimed towards harming other and that lack consideration for the well-being of others. Two types are prejudice and aggression

Question 2

What is prejudice and how is prejudice different from stereotypes and discrimination?

Answer 2

An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude toward a group and its members. Discrimination is based on emotions

Question 3

What are stereotypes and why are they harmful?

Answer 3

Generalized beliefs about a group; only have a kernel of truth and are over generalized.

Question 4

What is stereotype threat and what are ways to reduce stereotype threat?

Answer 4

a state of stress due to fear that one will be judged based on a negative stereotype that causes performance to suffer; remove sues about stereo type, convey that diversity is valued, and make responses anonymous

Question 5

What is discrimination and what causes discrimination?

Answer 5

acting in negative and unjustifiable ways towards members of a group; in-group bias, implicit bias, and explicit prejudices

Question 6

What are ways to reduce prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 6

proximity and positive interactions to outgroup, laws, become aware and replace prejudice responses, greater diversity in leadership roles

Question 7

What is aggression and what are the different types of aggression?

Answer 7

any behavior intended to harm a person who doesn’t wish to be harmed; instrumental and hostile aggression

Question 8

What are environmental and individual risk factors for extreme aggression?

Answer 8

environmental: access to guns, social exclusion/isolation, family, neighborhood characteristics, media violence, school characteristics, alcohol, and stressful events; Individual factors: gender and age, aggressive behavior in early childhood, personality and emotion regulation, and obsession with weapon, death

Question 9

What is the frustration-aggression principle?

Answer 9

implies that aggression is followed or triggered by a feeling of frustration

Question 10

What was the Bobo doll experiment and how does it relate to aggression?

Answer 10

kids observed adults playing with the doll; kids copied aggression and caring based off of parents; people can learn to be or not be aggressive be observing the behavior of others

Question 11

How can media contribute to aggression?

Answer 11

seeing violent media can causes a person to behave more violently

Question 12

What are ways of reducing aggression?

Answer 12

teach kids non-aggressive ways to deal conflict, model non-aggressive behavior, allow anger to dissipate, and talk things out

Question 13

What is altruism?

Answer 13

any act that benefits another person but does not benefit the helpers and may even pose some risk to the helper

Question 14

What causes us to become attracted to someone?

Answer 14

proximity: geographic closeness, mere exposure effect-repeated exposure increases liking

Question 15

How are passionate love and companionate love different?

Answer 15

passionate love: an aroused state of intense desire for someone, tends to be temporary, based on arousal, fueled by testosterone/dopamine/adrenaline
Compassionate love: a deep affectionate attachment to someone, more long lasting, based on feelings of trust/calmness/bonding, fueled by oxytocin

Question 16

What predicts whether a relationship will last?

Answer 16

relationship equity (receive what is given), self disclosure (revealing things about self), positive support, conflict resolved without contempt or sarcasm

Question 17

Who is Kitty Genovese and how does her story relate to the bystander effect?

Answer 17

kitty was murdered and no one reported it; tendency for people to be less likely to help if other bystanders are present

Question 18

What are motives for helping others?

Answer 18

social responsibility, social exchange theory, reciprocity norm, empathy altruism

Question 19

When are people most likely to help others?

Answer 19

they notice someone needs help, they interpret the situation as an emergency, assume personal responsibility for getting help, similar to us, women, not in hurry, less people, in good mood

Question 20

What is tragedy of the commons? What leads to cooperation?

Answer 20

social trap; occurs when individuals pursue personal interests without regard for the common good of the group or society. cooperation when groups have shared goals that can only be achieved by working together.

Question 21

What is implicit prejudice?

Answer 21

prejudice that people hold without being aware of it.

Question 22

How do negative emotions contribute to prejudice?

Answer 22

they nourish prejudice and feed into it

Question 23

How does violent media relate to social scripts?

Answer 23

social script are culturally provided files on how to behave and violent media is creating new files

Question 24

What is the decision-making process for bystander intervention?

Answer 24

notice the incident, interpret as emergency, assume responsibility for helping